Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though few escape awkward moments on stage, all the characters rise to moments of lyrical grandeur. Peter Cody, a visitor to the Harvard stage, begins his Nemorino with a strong tenor voice and a characterization even more bumbling than the plot requires, but the magical elixir appears to ease his stiffness. His second-act aria to Adina surmounts the frilly animation of the production, creating, somehow, a wrenching summer-night sweetness between the cardboard storefronts...
...shocked if the camp phenom turns out to be a young pitcher. There is more untested talent throwing on Winter haven hills this spring than this organization has seen in a long while, and given the starting-over tenor of the squad this year, Houk may turn to a youngster for his tenth pitcher...
...extremely good. They help make more than usually bearable the Pudding Show plot, which--no matter where or when it is set--always seems to come out the same: wicked, chesty baritone schemes to murder or domineer others as air-head, goldilocks daughter falls in love with dim-wit tenor. Serfs Up!'s Monty-Python-and-the-Holy-Grail setting--with dozens of "thou's" thrown in--provides plenty of comic soil for puns to take root in; but it doesn't materially affect the stock Pudding plot--even if there is a peasant revolution, nasal lords and ladies, smelly...
...makeup and ride the bus on top of everything else." A measure of flexibility in casting is required: Galbraith sings the baritone role of Marcello in La Bohème, as well as the bass role of Dandini in Cinderella. In one week on the latest tour Tenor Carroll Freeman helped out with hair and makeup and sang two lines offstage in Bohème in Abilene, Texas, on Tuesday, and assumed the leading role of Rodolfo on Thursday, when the bus reached Lawton, Okla...
...their weaker numbers live, comes across childish and definitely unfunny on the record. There are exceptions, particularly Grant Bue's gutsy baritone solo on "What's Your Name?," and the last song on the album, a perfectly paced "Serenade in Blue," with an unusual and pleasing solo by tenor Steve Zelinger...